Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Cleary believes serious consideration should be given to cementing Semple Stadium as the permanent venue choice on Munster hurling final afternoon.

As Brian Hurley sits and waits in the IT Carlow canteen for a three o’clock lecture, he admits he’ll miss the place when he finishes up later this year.

They brought 66 balloons to Lucia Cleary’s grave yesterday — one for each month of her life.

The man who triggered the Dublin Lockout should be judged on all of his achievements and not just on his role in Ireland’s greatest industrial conflict, his descendants have said.

He described it as ‘nitpicking’ afterwards, but there was no mistaking how flabbergasted John Cleary was by David Gough’s allocation of one minute of injury-time in Limerick on Saturday.

Forty retail jobs are in the offing for a pre-Christmas opening of UK sofa chain DFS’s new Cork store.

EARLIER this week we asked a number of former Kilkenny captains and players if their team could create history tomorrow and complete the five in a row.

The jury at the inquest into the death of Donna Cleary has returned a verdict of unlawful killing.

Infrastructural projects in this country are billions of euro over budget, and vast numbers are not coming in on time, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

IT WAS in the All-Ireland final two years ago that Tipperary really announced their full-fledged presence on the senior camogie scene.